UNappreciated post! : -6 (+0/-6) I never meant to breed them, ALL my litters were accidents. We did not know the two from the store were male and female, they were small when we got them. When I got them I was only 12 and didn't know much about rats.
They were in a homemade glass cage with wood and metal lid, so sometimes they chewed out of the cage. It was one big cage with a divide in it to separate the male and the females and sometimes the glass divide fell so the rats could get together, I never ever meant to breed them, EVER.
In the case of drowning the babies, my parents made me do it because we had too many. I never drowned them my mother did. I begged them not to do it but "it had to be done".
Selling them to a pet store for store credit(to buy more rat food) was the only thing we could do and this was 10 years ago.
We lived on a farm... not even the dogs went to the vet cuz my parents thought it was a "waste of money", never mind a rat.
I have pets now and I take very good care of them.
The original poster asked "if anyone here have had any experiences with them?" I was giving my (terrible) experience, what happens when you don't care for them right!
I would never let that happen again. May I remind you again that it happened 10 years ago, when I was 12!! Besides the baby mess, they were awesome pets.
Ok, Is that good enough for you? Can you stop attacking me for something that happened when I was a kid?? |